00:02Nicosia International Airport. In July 1974, when the Turkish invasion began, everything came to a standstill.
00:12More than five decades later a group of Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, led by Alexis Ofocleus, united by assert
00:18sense of duty towards Cyprus's history and cultural heritage, entered the airport senior premises in operations office with UN permission.
00:28They became the first people to set foot there since 1974.
00:34Hundreds of pages of history were recovered, valuable documents, flight plans and archives of Cyprus's Airways that had remained trapped
00:42since the day of the invasion.
00:45The last Cyprus's Airways aircraft to land there has remained abandoned ever since, resting where the heart of Cyprus's air
00:52connection with the world once beat.
00:57Now, 52 years later, a major bicommunal initiative led by ordinary citizens is underway to restore the historic aircraft and
01:05transform it into a living, physical and digital museum.
01:10Alexis Ofocleus and his fellow supporters have secured backing from embassies and international cultural heritage protection organization in Cyprus.
01:19They are gathering signatures online and stand ready to operate the museum inside the aircraft, pending approval from the UN
01:25and UNFICIP.
01:27The museum aims to connect the past with the future, belong to all Cypriots and serve as a tangible symbol
01:33of peace, respect and solidarity.
01:38The vision of the initiative supporters on both sides of the buffer zone is for students, researchers and citizens from
01:44every corner of the island to once again meet on this share ground under UNFICIP supervision and grow closer together.
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